Remember the resident squirrel in my kitchen? Well, he comes several times every day to eat the left-over catfood and even has his own foodbowl in Mac's place in my backyard.
I think he resides in a tree in my next-door back neighbour's backyard as I often hear shuffling noises amongst the green leaves.
One day last week, I came home from work and heard very loud drilling sounds at the back of my house. To my horror, my next-door back neighbour's whole backyard had been torn down for bigscale renovation and the tree was chopped down.
For one week, Squirrel did not appeared in our kitchen.....
I felt really sad and it made me think of how we humans destroy the homes of these furry community animals, who, in the first place, had probably resided in the jungle that used to exist before our entire housing area was built. And now, Squirrel only has that one green tree to live in, and now, even that is chopped down.
We wondered where Squirrel could have gone to. We could only pray he is safe somewhere and can find sufficient food.
Two days ago, I spotted a robust-looking squirrel in my front garden. I wasn't sure if it was (the backyard) Squirrel as they all looked alike to me.
But guess what....yesterday, being a Sunday (and hence, no renovation works), Squirrel came back!!
We heard the familiar clack-clack-clack crunching sound in the kitchen and we peeped in....voila! There was Squirrel!!
Yay! He's safe, after all.
I hear the renovation is super-massive and is going to last two months.....
I wonder where Squirrel is staying now....but am glad he is safe.
So there we have it. It's "okay" for humans to destroy their homes, but absolutely "not okay" if the stray cat sleeps on our car or the stray dog pees on our tyres.
Imagine one day, cats and dogs grow really BIG, and they come in with tractors and cranes and they tear down our houses!! Then, we have to live inside sewage drains (but wait...even the rats have grown really big!) and we only come out for food when the big dogs and cats are asleep. And when they see us prowling around for food, they call their municipal councils and we get captured, placed into human pounds and we're euthanised after 7 days if no cat or dog comes to claim or adopt us?
And there are no more public toilets for us humans, yet, we have to pee and poo, right? So we do it wherever it's convenient for us, but the dogs and cats don't like it, so they splash us with hot water or acid. You're supposed to pee and poo like us, they say, but we are not them, so we don't know any better.... We don't understand what they want, why are they punishing us for what we don't even understand?
Or maybe some of us are luckier, and get adopted as "pets". But we're sent for obedience training where we have to obey commands like "sit", "heel" and "stay". We cannot do whatever we want. We have to live a life of total obeisance to their commands; we have to do what they want of us.
Or maybe, the prettier ones amongst us are sent for breeding so that our babies can be sold in the human-pet industry. But our babies had better be born perfect, or else, they would be euthanised!
But maybe we don't mind that kind of life....compared with our other human-friends who aren't so lucky....
This would be the ones who are sent to the animals' human-testing facility to test their drugs, etc. We'd have chemicals pumped into our eyes, rubbed onto our skins, electrodes pierced into our brains and finally have our heads decapitated, and thrown aside after we've been used. And....it's the RABBITS and GUINEA PIGS who are the scientists!!
And they might have human factory farms too, where we are artificially inseminated to breed every nine months (or shorter), to supply human babies for their restaurants since human baby is a special delicacy at their wedding dinners? And once the human-woman is past her reproductive age, she will be sent for slaughter, or maybe turned into low-grade animal-feed for the lions, tigers and hyenas?
I think the ones amongst us who end up at the human factory farm suffer the most. Every morning, we have to walk down an aisle, and there would be wardens who prod us with an electric gadget if we don't walk in single file. And while we await our turn to be slaughtered, we hear our friends wailing and crying for mercy. Sometimes we even see our own children being slaughtered and we cry, "Please, please...spare my child, please...but who listens?" Then, we see our already-slaughtered friends, maybe without their heads and limbs, hung upside down, ready to be transported to the many fast-food chains where human burgers are a favourite amongst the younger animals. And who are the butchers? Why, it's the giant chickens, pigs, cows and goats (they are now all bigger than us)! But wait...aren't they vegetarians...they shouldn't slaughter us, right? Let's hope so....
Think that might happen one day? Maybe not, since animals are probably much kinder and not so savage in their thinking and way of life. Or perhaps, take comfort in the fact that the supposedly smartest animals are the apes (or so we think) and apes are vegetarians (or are they?). So even if they rule the Earth one day, they might not eat us? But they might still use us in their labs for testing purposes.
Remember the 1960's "Planet of the Apes"? The whole series is one of my all-time favourite shows.
The original 1968 film tells the story of an astronaut crew who crash-land on a strange planet (which they later found out, was our Earth!) in the distant future. Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and speech. The apes have assumed the role of the dominant species and humans are mute animals.
But in the series, the apes did not eat humans. Rather, their scientists used humans as specimens for testing in their labs (pretty much like what the Nazis did to fellow human-Jews during WW2).
ABSOLUTELY "SIGNIFICANT"!
Live and let live, folks. Please speak up against all forms of animal exploitation. Humans bully animals just because they are bigger and stronger....for now.
But what goes around, comes round.....
Collectively as a human race, one day, we shall pay the price of our evil misdeeds.
The Universe is always fair.
P.S. Allow me the occasional indulgence to let my imagination run wild!
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